Adjunct Research Faculty: NSF STEM Education & Workforce

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) seeks Adjunct / Affiliated Research Faculty in STEM education and workforce domains to collaborate with university and community‑college partners on WIL‑aligned sponsored projects.

Engage as research collaborators, co‑investigators, or content leads; remote‑first with travel as required for partner campuses and field sites; opportunities for full‑time employment or project‑based contracts.

Qualifications

• Doctorate or equivalent in engineering education, STEM education, computer science education, learning sciences, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated record of STEM education, teacher professional development, technician education, or engineering/CS education research (publications, funded projects, or citeable institutional roles)
• Ability to collaborate with university or community‑college sponsored‑research teams and K-14 or industry education partners

Responsibilities

• Contribute STEM education or engineering/CS education research design, methods, and scholarly framing for university‑hosted sponsored projects
• Collaborate with institutional PIs, school districts or community‑college partners, and WIL research leads on research questions, curricula translation, and broader‑impacts narratives
• Support K-14 educator research‑experience models, classroom/curriculum follow‑on, and workforce pathway documentation when the project design calls for it
• Produce high‑quality written products - literature framing, methods sections, evaluation plans, progress reports, and past‑performance narrative - suitable for NSF‑style and related education packages
• Contribute specialist qualifications and citeable past projects to WIL grant and sponsored‑research packages when permissioned

Skills

Research collaboration

Scholarly writing

Education research

Education

PhD in Engineering Education

Job description

AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) seeks Adjunct / Affiliated Research Faculty in STEM education and workforce domains to collaborate with university and community‑college partners on WIL‑aligned sponsored projects.

Engage as research collaborators, co‑investigators, or content leads; remote‑first with travel as required for partner campuses and field sites; opportunities for full‑time employment or project‑based contracts.